The conference is exploratory in nature. We seek to investigate historical case-studies and sources on interactions, both real and imagined, between Jews, Christians and Muslims from various times and places as moments of co-production. We are also eager to learn what resonances such historical work can have with theological thinkers, religious educators, media experts and artists. We want to create a space in which critical historical work and constructive creativity can together discover new ways to tell the history of Islam, Judaism and Christianity as a history of religious co-production.
The conference is exploratory in nature. We seek to investigate historical case-studies and sources on interactions, both real and imagined, between Jews, Christians and Muslims from various times and places as moments of co-production. We are also eager to learn what resonances such historical work can have with theological thinkers, religious educators, media experts and artists. We want to create a space in which critical historical work and constructive creativity can together discover new ways to tell the history of Islam, Judaism and Christianity as a history of religious co-production.
Here you find the program of the conference that is always the up-to-date version (currently: 17/05/2023).
MONDAY, JUNE 26th
4 pm Welcome Coffee and Registration (Morgenberghorn)
5 pm Opening session with live performance
Room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: David Nirenberg and Katharina Heyden
Introduction (30’), Katharina Heyden and David Nirenberg
Historical narratives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in educational media. Case studies from past and present (20’), David Käbisch
(Digital) Media as a space of Religious Co-Production (20’), Anna Neumeier
Co-Produced Religions (Judaism-Christianity-Islam): Implications for Public Scholarship (20’), Elisabeth Becker-Topkara
Live Performance (15’), Nicolas Wolf
7.30 pm Dinner (Buffett)
TUESDAY, JUNE 27th
8.30–10.15 am Morning lectures
Room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: David Nirenberg
‘The Jews of this Nation’: The Co-production of Sectarian Identity in the Fatimid Caliphate, ca. 1120, Mohamad Ballan
‘My earth is wide’: the concept of migration in Judaism and Islam during the Muwahidi era, Miriam Frenkel
10.15 am Coffee break (Morgenberghorn/Niederhorn and Bärenplatz)
10.45–12.30 am Parallel workshops
If possible, please select a whole session instead of individual workshops!
I Seminar room: Hondrich
Moderation: Yonatan Binyam
10.45–11.30 am: The Life of the Prophets: A Window into the Judeo-Christian Co-Production of Tomb Pilgrimage (1st-4th century), Maureen Attali
11.45–12.30 am: Reading the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Jillian Stinchcomb
II Seminar room: Einigen
Moderation: David Gyllenhaal
10.45–11.30 am: Counter-Narratives of Birth in the Gospels, Israel Yuval
11.45–12.30 am: Tales of Difficult Neighbourhood. Early Modern Jewish Counter Narratives, Susanne Talabardon
III Seminar room: Merligen
Moderation: Sarah Islam
10.45–12.30 am: Fiction or not, that is not the question: Conceptual, religious, and social insights through the unique dialogue Qui ceptum by the Jewish convert Peter, Uncastillo (Aragon), c. 1222, Matthias Tischler
12.30–13.45 pm Lunch (Buffet)
2–4.05 pm Parallel lectures
If possible, please select a whole session instead of individual lectures!
I Seminar room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: Paul Neuenkirchen
2–2.35 pm: The Matter of the Resurrection. Co-produced questions and answers about the physics of life after death as a case study of Jewish-Christian-Islamic intellectual exchange, Barbara Roggema
2.45–3.20 pm: Jewish Printers and Christian Artists Designing a Book for Sefardi Exiles in Naples, 1492, Katrin Kogman-Appel
3.20–3.55 pm: Religion as a function of social circumstances? Co-production in Shlomo ibn Verga`s Shevet Yehuda, Wolfram Drews
II Seminar room: Einigen
Moderation: Sarah Islam
2–2.35 pm: The doctrine of alteration leading to the doctrine of sticking to the text: Muslim attitudes to the Qur'an in opposition to accusations against Jews of changing the Torah, Amir Dziri
2.45–3.20 pm: The mystical charge of the coffee preparation ritual in Ethiopia, between baraka and eucharist: layers of co-production between Sufi Islam and Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity, Eloi Ficquet
3.30–4.05 pm: A case study lecture on Co-Production in Christianity and Islam – past and present: The derivation of religious and social tolerance in Sierra Leone, West Africa, Prince Sorie Conteh
4.05 pm Coffee break (Morgenberghorn/Niederhorn and Bärenplatz)
4.30 pm Afternoon lecture
Room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: Katharina Heyden
Embrico of Mainz: Re-inventing Muhammat for the Christian Simony Controversy, Volker Leppin
5.30 pm Departure to Castle
6–7.30 pm Concert: Three Cultures; Muslims, Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain
Spiez Castle Church
Welcoming address: Katharina Heyden
Moderation: David Nirenberg
Co-produced music from medieval Spain
Cesar Carazo: canto árabe, hebreo, latín, galaicoportugués y español y viola (fídula)
El Wafir Sheikheldin: canto árabe y laúd árabe
Jorge Rozemblum: canto hebreo y español sefardí, cítola (guitarra medieval) y pandero
Eduardo Paniagua: coro, salterio, flautas y dirección
7.30–9 pm Apéro Riche (Castle Courtyard)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28th
8.30–10.15 am Morning lectures
Room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: Katharina Heyden
Reading the Theology of the Other: Engaging with Herman Cohen’s “Religion of Reason: Out of the Sources of Judaism”, Ufuk Topkara
Conviviality in Motion: Moments of contemporary interreligious co-production in super-diverse communities, Andrea Bieler
10.15 am Coffee break (Morgenberghorn/Niederhorn and Bärenplatz)
10.45–12.30 Parallel workshops
If possible, please select a whole session instead of individual workshops!
I Seminar room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: Jillian Stinchcomb
10.45–11.30am: Cows and Co-Production: Surah al-Baqarah in relation to Exodus 32, Numbers 19 and Deuteronomy 21, Kate F. Tinson
11.45–12.30am: Porous Communal Boundaries and Coproduction between Muslims and Jews in Fatimid Egypt: an examination of the Jewish Iqrar Genre in the Cairo Geniza, Sarah Islam
II Seminar room: Einigen
Moderation: Maureen Attali
10.45–11.15 am: Arabic Manuscripts as Interactive Products: Some Case Studies, Arianna Dottone
11.15–11.45 am: Pre- and Post-reform Umayyad coinage as an example of late antique material co-production, Paul Neuenkirchen
11.45–12.15 am: Discussion
12.30–1.45 pm Lunch (Buffet)
2–4.05 pm Parallel lectures
If possible, please select a whole session instead of individual lectures!
I Seminar room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: Paul Neuenkirchen
2–3.20 pm: In Search of a Sinful Pun: A Granular Analysis of Q. 2:58-59, David Gyllenhaal and Shlomo Zuckier (double lecture)
3.30–4.05 pm: Symbolic Kinship as Co-Productive of Race and Religion in Early Christian Literature, Yonatan Binyam
II Seminar room: Einigen
Moderation: Jillian Stinchcomb
2–2.35 pm: ‘Livre de Sidrac’ and the Co-Production of a Mediterranean Encyclopedia, Uri Shahar
2.45–3.20 pm: Lex Abrahae. The Co-Production of a Qur’an-Inspired Concept in Renaissance Christendom, Davide Scotto
3.30–4.05 pm: Co-Producing Blasphemy: The Satanic Verses, the Muhammad Cartoons and the Strange Case of Auto-Blasphemy, Thomas Hoffmann
III Seminar room: Hondrich
Moderation: Sarah Islam
2–2.35 pm: Pledging Water: Muslim Judges and Jewish Water Ownership in a Southern Moroccan Oasis, Aomar Boum
2.45–3.20 pm: Solidarity and Co-Productive Theologies in Jewish-Muslim Interfaith Work in the UK, Yulia Egorova
3.30–4.05 pm: A Christology, sensitive to Jewish and Muslim concerns, Reinhold Bernhardt
4.05 pm Coffee break (Morgenberghorn/Niederhorn and Bärenplatz)
5–7 pm Closing session with live performance
Room: Morgenberghorn
Moderation: David Nirenberg and Katharina Heyden
Live Performance, Nicolas Wolf
Conference Reflections by CORE-Academic Collegium members
Final discussion
7.30 pm Dinner (served/Banquet)
THURSDAY, JUNE 29th
Day of departure (check out until 10am)
